"Sometimes a people needs an angel and sometimes an angel needs a people." So speaks the angel who is caring so tenderly if a bit clumsily for the people of this village in Switerland. There is a vibrant young girl named Zola who routinely appears before the angel and say, "Do something." This angel struggles with the art of language and with the art of being an angel. Neither goes smoothly or easily and both go with great heart and right on target. Words you never heard before should be in the language. This time the angel's job is finding a safe place for a group of lost and hungry orphans. Charming. Delightful. A story to read and re-read.
Recommended by: Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com
*****
Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech crafts a truly endearing story, one that is imbued with happiness, wonder, and an appreciation for all the little things that make life big. With beautiful, fresh new cover art, this is a gem of a book.
In the winding stone tower of the Casa Rosa, in a quiet little village in the Swiss Alps, lives one very unlikely angel—one that is still awaiting her instructions from the angel-training center. What happens to an angel who doesn't know her mission? She floats and swishes from high above, watching the crazy things that "peoples" say and do. But when a zany American girl named Zola arrives in town and invades the Casa Rosa, dogs start arfing, figs start flying through the air, lost orphans wander in, and the village becomes anything but quiet. And as Zola and the angel work together to rescue the orphans, they each begin to realize their purpose and learn that there is magic in the most ordinary acts of kindness.---from the publisher
